[quote]Originally posted by crgkstnr:
<strong>Greetings Kyrie,
I don't think my post was clear. I meant what might be the E German sunburst stamps were defaced by punching them with something like a blunt center punch.
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I wonder if any forum member has a luger with intact E. German stamps? Where were these stamps usually placed on a luger?
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Hi Craig!
Ah! I understand better - sorry I was dense ;-(
There doesnâ??t seem to have been any rhyme or reason to the location of the VoPo stamps - they occur wherever there was room for them. They are usually found somewhere near the frame serial number, but there are exceptions.
According to Dieter Marschall in his wonderful â??Walther Pistols Models 1 Through P99â?? the stamp (albeit obliterated on your Luger) is a sunburst enclosing a shield that encloses the number of the administrative district. These administrative district were:
1 Rostock
2 Schwerin
3 Neubrandenburg
4 Potsdam
5 Frankfurt/Order
6 Cottbus
7 Magdeburg
8 Halle
9 Gera
10 Suhl
11 Dresden
12 Liepzig
14 Karl Marx Stadt (Chemnitz)
15 Berlin
16 Wismut
Warm regards,
Kyrie
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